Benin/Prevention of youth unemployment: Anpe raises awareness among parents in Porto-Novo

The National Agency for the Promotion of Employment (Anpe) that Urbain Amégbédji has been directing since 2016 has decided to prevent youth unemployment. This is what justifies the awareness session for parents and local elected officials of the city of Porto-Novo which took place at the Youth House of Djègan Kpèvi on Friday, May 13, 2022. The event was placed under the authority of Marie Akpotrossou, Prefect of the Department of Ouémé, who was accompanied by Charlemagne Yankoti, Mayor of the city of Porto-Novo.

"Unemployment that we see through the statistics, through its manifestations of underemployment or non-employment of young people begins at a time when we did not expect it, when children are still making choices about their studies", said Urbain Amégbédji, for whom there are attitudes to be observed in order to prevent unemployment. Among these attitudes, continued the Dg/Anpe, are indeed the exchanges with the parents of students so that they have the necessary tools to better guide their children in the choice of courses of study.

For Urbain Amégbédji, parents have an important responsibility in the unemployment that young people experience because they are the ones who force their children to choose unsuitable courses of study, in a word things for which they do not have the required predispositions. "Today, it is not only the diploma that counts on the job market, but also the competence in the field to which your diploma corresponds," said Urbain Amégbédji for whom it is more important than ever to better guide children. And on this, parents have an important role to play in conjunction with specialized structures in the field such as Anpe.

For Mayor Charlemagne Yankoti, the initiative of this awareness session is very commendable. And it is for this reason that he called on everyone not to miss what Anpe offers to our children through their parents. "One of the ways to achieve the fame to which we aspire is to learn to One of the ways to achieve the fame one aspires to is to learn to exercise the profession for which one has the talent...", advised the idyll of the city of Porto-Novo for whom the time has come for pragmatism.

In his speech, the Prefect of Ouémé invited the decentralized communities, the youth, the parents of students and all development actors to In his speech, the Prefect of Ouémé invited the decentralized communities, youth, parents and all development actors to become collectively aware of this opportunity to re-examine the issue of employability of young people from different angles, which the ANPE offers to future job candidates and their parents.

Source: matinlibre.com